Khusnullin admitted a shortage of 400,000 construction workers by 2030

The labor shortage in Russia’s construction industry could reach 400,000 people by the end of the decade, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin told reporters.

“If the economy develops at the same pace, including in construction, then the deficit by 2030 could be up to 400,000,” – leads his words to Interfax.

At the moment, the domestic construction complex lacks about 50,000 people, which is “not so much” against the backdrop of 11 million construction workers currently working.

Earlier in March, head of the HeadHunter press service Alexander Dzhabarov told Vedomosti reports that the shortage of personnel in construction has reached its maximum since August 2022. and amounted to 1.2 people per place. In the first half of 2021, this figure was two applicants per vacancy. The staff shortage arose after the first wave of the 2020 pandemic, when borders were closed and the influx of labor migrants significantly weakened.

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Construction and Housing and Communal Services Sergei Pakhomov, in turn, then pointed out the need to provide career guidance to schoolchildren from high school to overcome the shortage of personnel in the construction industry. His deputy, Alexander Aksenenko, connected the situation with personnel with the state of the higher construction education system in the country, in particular, with the reduction in the number of specialized universities in the regions from 16 to 7.